While the
citizens struggled with chaos amid storm, power cut, hailstorm and
traffic jam, the management of the capital was badly affected. Hoardings
and poles had fallen on roads and trees got uprooted. Incidents of fire
were reported at 12 places in the capital which were brought under
control by midnight. RMC was swift in the clean-up activity when more
than 150 hoardings and posters posed hurdles for vehicles to move on the
roads across the city. Kishan agrawal of Shankar Nagar area said that
he had to wait for at least two and half hours due to an uprooted tree
in the middle of the road. “But with the help of RMC workers and other citizens the work finished soon. Otherwise, it could have taken
whole night.”

Another resident of Rawabhata, Suyash Choudhry said, “There was no
power in the city for three hours and I thought it is going to be a dark
night. Thanks to RMC’s electricians, who were seen in many parts of the
city repairing the lines, the power resumed at around 1am and we could
sleep peacefully.”

A cleaning drive continued late till Sunday.
Corporation workers struggled with a few large trees which took the
entire night to be cleared.

In another development, Raipur
Municipal Corporation (RMC) in the previous financial year has
collected revenue of Rs 61 crore, up by more than Rs 9 crore revenue
collected in previous fiscal.

RMC commissioner, Taran Prakash
Sinha said that it was with efficiency and proper strategy that the
financial year’s revenue collection went up. He also announced
felicitation of revenue officer Arun Dubey and few other zonal revenue
workers and officers.